Motivational Quotes

Goals

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Goals

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Pasteur, Louis

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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.